A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life
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A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life
- Publication date
- 1731
- Publisher
- London : Printed for the author and sold by William Innys in St. Paul's Church yard, John Clarke under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, and John Brindley at the King's Arms in New Bond-Street
- Collection
- biodiversity
- Contributor
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Language
- English
- Volume
- v. 1
- Item Size
- 544.7M
SCNHRB copy (39088015703853, 39088015703895, 39088015703937) with bookplates of Jonathan Dwight Jr. and Marcia Brady Tucker
SCNHRB copy with a ms. "Willoughby" or "Willughby" no. by each description of a bird in v. 1
SCNHRB copy with 10 additional plates v. 1; 1 plate v. 2. (for a total of 317 plates)
SCNHRB copy bound in calf with gilt rolls at edges (rebacked), marbled endpapers, with bookseller's ticket: Dulau & Co., London
3 volumes (volume 1: [8], 96, [4] pages, 101 leaves of plates; volume 2: [8], 92, [2] pages, 104 leaves of plates; volume 3: [8], 95, [1] pages, 101 leaves of plates) : 30 cm (4to)
First edition
John Clarke is not included in the imprint of volume 3
Each volume includes a list of subscribers
The word "curiously" is omitted from the title in volumes 2 and 3
Woodcut title vignettes, initials, tail-pieces
Plates are hand-colored
"The following observations I received from Dr. Derham"--pages [1]-[2], 3rd page group of volume 1
Errata: page [2], 3rd paging group of volume 1
Includes indexes (volumes 1 and 2) and "A catalogue of the birds in the third volume"
digitized BHLDP 20130430
extracted picklist 20081216
SCNHRB copy with a ms. "Willoughby" or "Willughby" no. by each description of a bird in v. 1
SCNHRB copy with 10 additional plates v. 1; 1 plate v. 2. (for a total of 317 plates)
SCNHRB copy bound in calf with gilt rolls at edges (rebacked), marbled endpapers, with bookseller's ticket: Dulau & Co., London
3 volumes (volume 1: [8], 96, [4] pages, 101 leaves of plates; volume 2: [8], 92, [2] pages, 104 leaves of plates; volume 3: [8], 95, [1] pages, 101 leaves of plates) : 30 cm (4to)
First edition
John Clarke is not included in the imprint of volume 3
Each volume includes a list of subscribers
The word "curiously" is omitted from the title in volumes 2 and 3
Woodcut title vignettes, initials, tail-pieces
Plates are hand-colored
"The following observations I received from Dr. Derham"--pages [1]-[2], 3rd page group of volume 1
Errata: page [2], 3rd paging group of volume 1
Includes indexes (volumes 1 and 2) and "A catalogue of the birds in the third volume"
digitized BHLDP 20130430
extracted picklist 20081216
Notes
Various plates: text lost in binding. Irregular page numbering. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
- Addeddate
- 2013-01-08 17:16:36
- Associated-names
- Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735, writer of added commentary; Albin, Elizabeth, illustrator, colorist; Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner; Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner; A. Dulau & Co., bookseller
- Call number
- 39088015703853
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
-
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- Identifier
- naturalhistoryof01albi
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- Pages
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- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Ppi
- 300
- References
- Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, page 3; English short title catalogue T64477, T64478, T64475; Wood, C.A. Introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology, page 184; Anker, J. Bird books and bird art, number 4
- Republisher_date
- 20130108184908
- Republisher_operator
- associate-daniel-euphrat@archive.org
- Scandate
- 20130108174142
- Scanner
- scribe1.washingtondc.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- washingtondc
- Title_id
- 132954
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 6434275
- Year
- 1731
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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